Grupo 4:40

Grupo 4:40 is among the state-of-the-art and popular merengue rings in the globe, a position they have achieved by softening the audio of traditional merengue with infusions of melodic harmonization ? la Manhattan Transfer and with the addition of levels of metaphor and poetic allusion that advertisement towards the cultural and politics realities from the Dominican Republic. Music group mastermind, Juan Luis Guerra, traces the audio to his research of literature on the College or university of Santa Domingo and his years learning jazz at Boston’s renowned Berklee University. Although he was significantly inspired by such rings as the Beatles, Green Floyd, the Moving Rocks, and Manhattan Transfer, he attempts to keep carefully the music group faithful to its Latin root base.